Don’t Kiss The Bride by Carian Cole-Review Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 1 2021
I guess you could say I was a damsel in distress, and he was my knight in shining armor.
But more accurately, I was a girl with a lot of bad luck, and he was a guy with a lot of muscles and tattoos.
Jude “Lucky” Lucketti wasn’t just a sexy, brooding construction worker. He was my own personal hero who seemed to be in all the right places at the right times. Like when my car broke down and I needed a ride home, and when I face planted on the sidewalk right in front of him and had to be taken to the emergency room.
Those weren’t exactly my best moments, but they were his.
We became friends, and it didn’t matter that he was sixteen years older than me. We had a lot in common—like our love of old rock music and vintage fast cars, and our aversion to relationships.
When he approached me with a crazy idea to help me out, I couldn’t say no.
The arrangement was supposed to be temporary. A marriage on paper and nothing else.
It should’ve been easy, but it wasn’t.
Because here I am, eighteen years-old, still in high school, and married to a man I was never supposed to fall in love with.
We had just one rule—no kissing the bride.
But we broke that rule, and it sealed our fate forever.
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REVIEW:DON’T KISS THE BRIDE by Carian Cole is a contemporary, new adult to adult erotic stand alone romance story line focusing on eighteen year old, high school student Skylar Timmons , and thirty-four year old construction worker Jude ‘Lucky’ Lucketti. There is a slight cross-over with the author’s Ashes and Embers series.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives ( Skylar and Lucky) DON’T KISS THE BRIDE focuses on the age-gap, marriage of convenience between eighteen year old, high school student Skylar Timmons , and thirty-four year old construction worker Jude ‘Lucky’ Lucketti. Skylar Timmons home and personal life is a mess, and it has affected her emotionally, physically, and mentally to the point that our heroine struggles with daily tasks. An altercation in the high school parking lot finds construction worker Jude Lucketti rescuing our heroine, a rescue she claims she could have handled herself but as the days pass, Lucky finds himself following for the young woman only to realize that not all is well in her less than ordered life. An offer of a ‘marriage of convenience’ without the benefits of being husband and wife is exactly what our heroine needs until Skylar and Lucky finds themselves falling in love. What ensues is the back and forth, slow building romance and relationship between Skylar and Lucky, and the fall-out as Lucky struggles with their age difference, and ghost from the past.
Skylar Timmons life has been spiralling out of control for years, and is only getting progressively worse. Secrets at home will come to light, and in this Jude Lucketti knows there is only one thing he can do to save the woman with whom he will fall in love but Lucky’s past is about to affect the present, and in this Skylar will be caught in the direct line of fire
The relationship between Skylar and Jude is an age-gap, older man-younger woman, marriage of convenience in which our couple struggle to come to terms with married life. Jude refuses to cross the line from friendship to married couple, and in this Skylar is left to pick up the pieces of her broken heart. Abandoned by her father, Jude’s rejection is a continuous cycle of pain and heart break.. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and seductive but I struggle with the use of a certain four-letter word, only used twice, but mostly for shock value.
We are introduced to Skylar’s best friend Megan, and her boss Rebecca; Skylar’s struggling mother Nicole; Lucky’s aunt Suzy and uncle Al. The requisite evil has many faces including a gang of high school mean girls.
DON’T KISS THE BRIDE is a story of miscommunication and misunderstanding; mental illness, family, secrets, relationships and love. The premise is dramatic, heart breaking, emotional and captivating; the romance is impassioned and sensual ; the characters are broken, wounded and tragic.
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Reviewed by Sandy
Born and raised a Jersey girl, Carian now resides in beautiful New Hampshire with her husband and their multitude of furry pets. She spends most of her time writing, reading, and vacuuming. Carian Cole has a passion for the bad boys, those covered in tattoos, sexy smirks, ripped jeans, fast cars, motorcycles, and of course, the sweet girls who try to tame them and win their hearts.
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